Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...again, and very fast, I doubt not, although we seemed hardly to move at all, as I watched the spot of sky above, and bent every particle of will-power on trying to keep aching arms and numb fingers from relaxing their hold on the rope. I hope that I shall never again suffer the agony of those few moments. They seemed hours. Once, I thought I should have to give in; but I looked down at little Elsie, who was twined around me, with her quivering hands clasped about my neck; and the look of terrible suffering...
...drink or disreputable courses so often. They are supposed to do so, because when they do they are marked men, and their friends tell stories of them and lament over them, whereas their rivals sink under the waters silently; but as a matter of fact, they are ruined past hope in much smaller proportion. Granting other things equal, the chances of great success, these maintain, are greater for the graduates, while the chances of great failure are less; and those two facts - which we may remark en passant we believe to he real, especially as regards the second - ought...
...prospects for victory ought to be very good this year; for, besides the three new men from the class crews, there are six of last year's crew in college, and should all be persuaded to row. In addition to these we hope to see a hearty response to Capt. Hammond's call for more men, made at the boat club meeting Tuesday evening. We have no easy task before us, a fact which is fully appreciated by every member of the crew. For the past three years Yale has had a phenomenally heavy and muscular crew. This...
...rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server,' and the 'server' into the 'striker;' sometimes they are called 'hand-in' and 'hand-out,' when tennis scoring is employed, as is now universally the case. It is too much to hope that the rising generation will take a hint, and endeavor to call things (especially lawn tennis) by their correct names." The players of lawn tennis in college should take the hint so freely offered and put to shame the bitter pessimism of that last sentence...
...foot-ball clubs are allowed to play games in other cities, and a great part of their revenue is obtained from these outside games. There is surely no reason why the same privilege should not be granted to our musical organizations, which are so worthy of support. We hope it will not be long before they meet with fairer treatment...